Whereas the Georgia in North
America has been a member-state of the U.S. from that union’s beginning, the
Georgia in Europe was still not annexed by the E.U. slightly more than 30 years
after that Union’s beginning. Whether to join an empire-scale union of states
is a political decision, as a union of states is a political animal. When a
prospective state government criminalizes political protest and public discourse
on that decision, such a government violates the federal requirement that the
state governments adhere to democratic principles, which exclude criminalizing
the political opposition. The government of Georgia in Europe crossed this line
when a politician of the opposition was arrested for insulting the state
police.
The full essay is at "Insulting Police in Georgia."
